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Excursions in the Lake Baikal region
Posted on Jun 5, 2009, 10:10:22 by baikaleast
... of Buryatia you can visit the main Buddhist temples and sacred places: Ivolginskij Dazan - the center of Buddhism in the Russian Federation where one of the Buddhist miracles is situated - the imperishable body of Pandido-Khambo Lama Dashi Dorjo Itigelov, ...
 
Trans- Siberian
Posted on Apr 3, 2009, 23:51:00 by aopaq
... by email again. Expect to pay by bank transfer rather than credit card. Reports also suggest they can't book Beijing-Irkutsk tickets, only Beijing-Krasnoyarsk and beyond, so by all means ask for Beijing-Irkutsk, but be prepared to accept an offer of ...
 
TransSiberian Railway - September 2008
Posted on Apr 20, 2008, 22:04:06 by bougainville
... along the route... Roughly saying the itinerary goes as follows: Moscow (3-4 days) - Yekaterinburg (2 days) - Krasnoyarsk (2 days) - Irkutsk - Olkhon Island (2-3 days) - Listvyanka - Ulan Ude (2 days). (Severobaikalsk, north side of the lake remains an ...
 
Trans Siberian Railway
Posted on Apr 21, 2006, 12:13:26 by peacefrog
... year, apparently it might be necessary to book in advance. Cheapest fare I could find on the net was through russian agencies (see www.waytorussia.net): Moscow-Irkutsk 257 USD. I will post a reply in one month, once I get the price at Moscow train station ...
 
Trans-Siberian in Winter?
Posted on Mar 28, 2007, 19:51:20 by peacefrog
... post in the dodgy stories thread, I think it was eddakath in a transsib full of soldiers going to war in Chechnia) Went Moscow-Irkutsk-Ulan Bataar - Beijing this summer. For what I have seen, the temperature is regulated in the wagons, they have a water ...
 
Lake Baikal
Posted on May 8, 2006, 20:05:12 by peacefrog
got it, thanks. Tell me TT, would you recommend crossing the lake and continuing the train on the other side, or taking the train from irkutsk along the southern shore?
 
Lake Baikal
Posted on May 8, 2006, 03:34:53 by Smiley
... about things not to be missed... Hello Peacefrog! Have you ever been there? I live in Russia (in Novosibirsk) and I heard Irkutsk becomes dirty town last time. And lake Baikal is not so fantastic as people say. So there are other beautiful places in ...
 
Trans Siberian Railway
Posted on Mar 31, 2006, 20:02:20 by Mark
... were in Kupe, from Beijing to Mongolia they were occupied by three or four of us, in winter and summer, respectively. From Beijing to Irkutsk and on to Moscow it was just two of us, though the overnight train from Moscow to St. Pete was fully booked both ...
 

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